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Informationen zum Autor Pamela Robertson Wojcik is Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theater and Director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna, also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of Movie Acting: The Film Reader. Klappentext Looks at how the apartment figures in mid-20th century US film and television as a mechanism for discussing issues of class, race, urbanism, and sexuality. Zusammenfassung Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre! one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction: A Philosophy of Urbanism 1 1. A Primer in Urbanism: Rear Window's Archetypal Apartment Plot 47 2. "We Like Our Apartment": The Playboy Indoors 88 3. The Great Reprieve: Modernity, Femininity, and the Apartment 139 4. The Suburbs in the City: The Housewife and the Apartment 180 5. Movin' On Up: The African American Apartment 220 Epilogue: A New Philosophy for a New Century 267 Notes 279 Bibliography 289 Index 303
